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Marine sniper at center of viral video scandal found dead
the Washington Post ^ | August 14, 2014 | Dan Lamothe

Posted on 08/14/2014 11:38:47 AM PDT by McGruff

Retired Marine Cpl. Robert Richards, a combat veteran who was badly wounded in Afghanistan and later appeared in a controversial video urinating on dead Taliban insurgents, was found dead Wednesday night in his home in North Carolina. He was 28.

The death was confirmed Thursday morning by Guy Womack, a lawyer who represented Richards in his long legal battle with the Marine Corps after the video was published anonymously on YouTube in January 2012 and erupted into an international scandal. Womack said the death does not appear to have been a suicide, and the cause will not be known until an autopsy and toxicology tests are completed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fallen; marine; oifveterans; semperfi
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Why don’t these clowns get life,sad but true what have we done to are own nation,


61 posted on 08/14/2014 10:52:56 PM PDT by primrose (w)
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To: Pining_4_TX
>" There is no objective "

To allow genocidal slaver murder cultists to freely travel while raping the elderly and infants at airports?

Sand Nazis have got to GO!

62 posted on 08/15/2014 3:06:05 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: rlmorel

Excellent! This is a valuable reference.


63 posted on 08/15/2014 4:38:29 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Well said. This sums it up. Excellent post.


64 posted on 08/15/2014 5:49:44 AM PDT by murrie (Mark Levin: Prosecuting stupidity nightly.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

But at least they didn’t cut anyone’s head off or slice children in two, right?


65 posted on 08/15/2014 6:22:09 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: GladesGuru

Our messed up ROE and foreign policy.


66 posted on 08/15/2014 6:23:11 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: rawcatslyentist

Then you admit that the only solution is to kill them all. However, that is not going to happen. So what to do that is actually effective and not just for show?


67 posted on 08/16/2014 10:35:29 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX
>" However, that is not going to happen."

Wanna bet?

http://biblehub.com/revelation/15-2.htm

68 posted on 08/16/2014 7:26:35 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: McGruff
I had not heard the entire situation which motivated the urinating incident.

"I'm really tired of explaining why we pissed on them. What led up to it — what really led up to it is, they desecrated one of our Marines," he said, noting that militants had spread a dead Marine's body parts around, even planting another IED near some of them to try to kill Marine investigators."

Marine Who Urinated On Taliban in Video Found Dead

69 posted on 08/20/2014 11:55:04 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "Our Emperor may have no clothes, but doesn't he have a wonderful tan" - MSM)
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